From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 3 09:03:50 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA24997 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 3 Feb 1998 09:03:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from germanium.xtalwind.net (germanium.xtalwind.net [205.160.242.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA24965 for ; Tue, 3 Feb 1998 09:03:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jack@germanium.xtalwind.net) Received: from localhost (jack@localhost) by germanium.xtalwind.net (8.8.8/8.8.7) with SMTP id MAA12576; Tue, 3 Feb 1998 12:03:02 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 3 Feb 1998 12:03:01 -0500 (EST) From: jack To: Don Wilde cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Modifyed ping In-Reply-To: <34D74520.E2292A96@partsnow.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG X-To-Unsubscribe: mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org "unsubscribe questions" On Tue, 3 Feb 1998, Don Wilde wrote: > I like the continuous ping so I can detect cable problems. Why don't you > add a few -dash options? > > -l 4 : limit pings to a total of 4 > -s 10 : space pings ten seconds apart Why not use the ones that are already there? -c and -i respectively. > I think it is important for the default operation of FreeBSD commands to > remain true to Berkeley Software Distribution defaults. One of the > advantages of FreeBSD is that it is so pure-BSD. We can use the books > our ancestors (!) used. This is a tremendous advantage, and one I'd not > give up lightly. Here. Here. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jack O'Neill Systems Administrator / Systems Analyst jack@germanium.xtalwind.net Crystal Wind Communications, Inc. Finger jack@germanium.xtalwind.net for my PGP key. PGP Key fingerprint = F6 C4 E6 D4 2F 15 A7 67 FD 09 E9 3C 5F CC EB CD enriched, vcard, HTML messages > /dev/null --------------------------------------------------------------------------